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Julie Cockburn

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Born: 1966
Lives: London

Education
1993-1996 Central St Martins School of Art and Design. BA Fine Art (Sculpture)
1992-1993 Chelsea School of Art. Foundation


Solo Exhibitions
2016
Layer Opacity, The Photographers' Gallery Print Sales Gallery

2014
Waiting Room, Flowers, Kingsland Road, London

2013
Slight Exposure, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

2012
Conversations, Lianzhou Foto, (curated by Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography)
The Photographers' Gallery (Print Sales)
Portraits and Landscapes, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London W1

2011
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, John Jones Project Space, London N4
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Matt Roberts Arts, London E8

2010
Filling The Cracks With Ceiling Wax, Flowers East, London E2

2008
What The Eye Doesn't See, Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8
Bridging The Generation Gap, Forster Gallery, London EC2 (cat)

2007
Come Into My Beautiful Garden, Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8

2006
Julie Cockburn, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Glos (cat)
Plan B, jaggedart, London W1 (cat)

2002
Whenwood, Pea Gallery, Clerkenwell, London EC1

1997
Blue Sky, Green Fields, 126 Curtain Road, London EC2


Group Exhibitions
2016

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Colours of the season, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, Netherlands
Out of Obscurity, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy, London
L�Autre Visage, Pole Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Photo London with Flowers Gallery, London
Allure [Fr. style, elegance] Photographs from the Susanne von Meiss Collection, C|O Berlin, Berlin
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers


2015

Group Show, Impakto Gallery Lima, Peru
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and touring, UK
Photo London with Flowers Gallery
Art Cologne with Galerie Conrads
Metamorphosis, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Wish You Were Here? MAC, Birmingham, UK
FOUND, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK

2014

Morphisisation, APT Gallery, London , (curated by Ben Woodeson)
Soft Target, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists� Books and the Natural World, Yale Center for British Art, USA
Regeneration, Photographers' Gallery Print Sales, London, W1
Threads, Arnhem Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, NL
The Postcard is a Public Work of Art, (curated by Jeremy Cooper), X Marks the B�kship, London E2
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers

2013

Small is Beautiful XXXI, Flowers Gallery, London E2
Riff/Rift, Baltic39, Newcastle
Paris Photo, Paris (With Yossi Milo Gallery)
Uncertain States 2013, The Bank, London E1
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (With The Photographers' Gallery)
Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL
Beyond Surface and Material, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby
Spring Photography Selection, Flowers East, London E2
Postcard Narratives, Room Gallery, London W1
Armory Show, New York, with Yossi Milo Gallery
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers

2012
Small is Beautiful XXX, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London W1
Nadelwerke, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
Now The Dream is Over, Blyth Gallery, London (curated by Mimei Thompson)
Now And Then II, Harris Lindsay, London (curated by Adrian Dannatt)
Uncertain States 2012, London
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (with The Photographers' Gallery and Flowers Gallery)
John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Liverpool
Art Gwangju with Hanmi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania (curated by Catalina Bolozan)
The Momentarily Absurd, High House Contemporary, Oxford
Art Car Boot Fair with Posted Projects, London E1
New Artists/New Work, The Photographers' Gallery Print Sales, London W1
Artists' Postcards - The Jeremy Cooper Collection, Spike Island, Bristol
Heads, Flowers Gallery, New York
CQ Mutiny Gallery 2012 - Smile Harder or Die Trying, Galerie Ramakers, The Hague, Netherlands (curated by Joncquil)
Lot's Wife, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury (curated by Karen MacDonald)
The New Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print, Photo50, London Art Fair (curated by Sue Steward)
East Wing X, The Courtauld Institute, London

2011
Christmas Show, Stephane Simoens, Belgium
Hidden In Plain Sight, Galerie8, London E8
Paris Photo with Flowers East, Paris
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London W1
Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project, Collette, Paris
Photography As Object, Sumarria Lunn, London W1
Art Car Boot Fair with Posted Projects, London E1
Exam, Transition Gallery, London E8 (curated by Edd Pearman)
Print Sales at Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, The Photographers' Gallery at Ambika P3, London, W1


2010
Marmite Prize for Painting, Central Art Gallery, Tameside and touring (cat)
ArtSway Open 2010, ArtSway, Hampshire (Shortlisted)
Uncertain States 2010, East Gallery, London E1 (curated by Will F. Turner) (cat)
Paris Photo with Flowers East, Paris
Salon Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts, London
Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Constructed Image in New British Photography, Flash Forward Festival, Toronto
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, Jerwood Space, London SE1 and touring
Double Trouble, Blyth Gallery, London (curated by Mindy Lee)
Keep Me Posted, Posted, London E8 (curated by Julia Royse)
Sarcophagus of the Kingdom, I-MYU Gallery, London EC2 (cat)
In Miss Rowe's Footsteps, Eagle Gallery, London EC1
Works on Paper, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire (cat)

2009
Flowers Autumn Selection 2009, Flowers East, London E2
The Russell Herron Collection: "This Was Now" (curated by Harry Pye) Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Modern British Art and the Environment, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Art Meets Fashion, Nurjungkunst, Munich (cat)
On the Fractured Stage of the Book, Eagle Gallery, London EC1
The Golden Record, The Collection, Lincoln

2008
Salon 08, Matt Roberts Arts at VINEspace, London, E2
In Search of Beauty and Wellbeing, Menier Gallery, London SE1
SPACE NOW, The Triangle, London E8 - (curated by Caroline Douglas)
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Book Things and Word Works, Eagle Gallery, London EC1

2007
Artsway Open 07, Hampshire, UK - Shortlisted
Allegory, Winston Wachter, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London SE1 and touring
Art and Psyche: The Freudian Legacy, CDS Gallery, New York
Salon 07, Matt Roberts Arts at Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8
Ten at One, Forster Gallery, London EC2
Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London, W1
Seen from the Wings of a Butterfly, Kunsthallen Br�nderig�rden, Viborg, Denmark
Mapping, Bury Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Lancashire, UK
Flora, Eagle Gallery, London EC1

2006
On the Fractured Stage of the Book, ICA, London W1, in conjunction with London Artists Book Fair, curated by Emma Hill
The Furniture Shop, Pavia, Italy � curated by William West and Elisa del Prete (cat)

2005
An Open Book, Orleans House, Richmond
Metamorphosis, thecentralhouse with Gallery One, Barnes
On Paper, Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London WC1
New Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Migrations, Eagle Gallery, London, EC1

2004
Rosetta Live, Riverside Studios, London
Ocean Flowers: Impressions From Nature In The Victorian Era, Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA
Constructive Paper, The Harley Gallery, Nottingham

2003
Artist Books, Prints and Multiples Exhibition, The Eagle Gallery, London EC1
Science Fact, Science Fiction, Pea Gallery, London EC1

1996
Top Marks, Davies Street Gallery, London W1

1995
King Sturge Art Prize, Davies Street Gallery, London W1
Directions 1995, Lethaby Gallery, London WC1

1994
Disclosure, Charlotte Road, London EC2




Bibliography
NRC HANDELSBLAD, Opinie & Debat, 27 February 2016
LULA MAGAZINE JAPAN, Autumn 2015
GRANTA MAGAZINE, July 2015, (cover)
In The Frame, INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE, 23 May 2015
EMBROIDERY MAGAZINE, January/February 2015
PARTERRE DE ROIS, March 2015
NEW SCIENTIST, 3 January 2015, (cover)
A stitch in time: the dream-like world of embroidered vintage photography, Sean O�Hagan, THE GUARDIAN, 28 November, 2014
Last Words, AESTHETICA MAGAZINE, December 2014/January 2015
NO TOKENS MAGAZINE, (cover), Issue 2, November 2014
Geen Gezicht, VOLKSKRANT MAGAZINE, p39, 13 September 2014
DELUXE, NRC Weekend, pp50-53, September 2014, Netherlands
Modern Nature, Emma Hill, PRINTMAKING TODAY, pp14-15, Spring 2014, Volume 23 2014 Issue 1
Books review - Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists� Books and the Natural World, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 15 June 2014 � ISSN 0307-269X
On Fertile Aesthetic Ground, Judith H. Dobrzynski, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 28 May 2014
Regeneration, The Photographers� Gallery, London � review, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, 14 May 2014
Critics Pick, ARTNEWS, May 2014 (cover)
Highlights of Art Rotterdam, KUNSTBEELD, February 2014
Slight Exposure, IMA MAGAZINE, Japan Spring 2014
Cousu Main, M MAGAZINE, Le Monde, 25 January, 2014
Picks of Art Rotterdam, KUNSTBEELD, February 2014
Familie, KUNSTBEELD, October 2013
Unseen in Zicht - Stephanie Broek, ELLE, NETHERLANDS, August 2013
On Photography, Sean O'Hagan, THE GUARDIAN.COM, 9 May 2013
Art Rotterdam - The Five Talents, KUNSTBEELD MAGAZINE, February 2013
Lianzhou Photo Festival - Diane Smyth, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, January 2013
Post Photography � The Unknown Image, Robert Shore, ELEPHANT, Winter 2012/2013
SCALPEL, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2012
Photography as Object, WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, July 2011
Julie Cockburn at Matt Roberts Arts, SPOONFED online review, George Binning, May 2011
Paper, Rock, Scissors, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, October 2010 Volume 157, Issue no 7781, Diane Smyth, Front cover and pp 27-33
SEESAW MAGAZINE, Issue 12 Autumn 2010, Edited by Aaron Schuman, www.seesawmagazine.com
Previews, Rachel Potts. GARAGELAND, issue 7, Dec 2008
The Liquid Page. Brian Dillon, FRIEZE MAGAZINE, Issue 118 October 2008
The Liquid Page, BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER No. 43 August 2008, pp 21-22, ISSN 1754-9087 (print) ISSN 1754-9086 (online)
Julie Cockburn exhibition, London, WALLPAPER.COM, 9 June 2008
The Wonders of the Recurated Wellcome Collection, THE LANCET, 2007; 370:125-126, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Scissor Sister, GALLERIES MAGAZINE, October 2006
The Fine Art Of Investing In An Original, THE INDEPENDENT, 15 January 2005
Bookworks. ARTREVIEW, December/January 2003
Playing Card. Matt Gibberd, WORLD OF INTERIORS, July 2001 issue



Grants/Awards
2010 Salon Art Prize Winner, Matt Roberts Arts

Projects
2013 - Commissioned artwork for The New Statesman Centenary issue
2011 - 'The World in London' Portrait Commission, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2011 - 'Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project', 20th anniversary issue, October 2011
2008 - Speaker "The Liquid Page" Symposium, Tate Britain


Publications
Eyemazing Susan Annual Pictorial, Eyemazing Editions, November 2014,
ISBN: 978-90-822754-0-7
Needlework � Stitched Illustration, Monsa, November 2014, ISBN: 978-84-15829-76-8
Contemporary Portraits, Index Books, September 2014 - ISBN: 978-84-15308-67-6
Morphisisation , Ben Woodeson, August 2014 � ISBN: 978 0 9575604 6 8
Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, by Robert Shore, Laurence King Publishing, September 2014 - ISBN: 9781780672281
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower": Artists' Books and the Natural World, edited by Elisabeth Fairman, Yale University Press, July 2014 � ISBN: 9780300204247
Scalpel, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2012
Conversations, Tycoon Books, November 2012 - ISBN 978-4-9906628-1-3
The Page, commission for Photoworks Magazine issue 18, Spring/Summer 2012
Artists' Postcards, Jeremy Cooper. January 2012 - Reaktion Books - ISBN-13: 978-1861898524
Efe 24, no. 2, May 2011 - ISBN 9-8-0007281-0
The Marmite Prize for Painting 2010 (cat)
Uncertain States 2010 - A Year In Print, East Gallery. Exhibition (cat)
Uncertain States, Issue 5, November 2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 (cat)
Uncertain States, Issue 2, January 2010. (www.uncertainstates.com)
The Liquid Page, published by UCCA - ISBN 1-870522-50-8
Bridging the Generation Gap, Forster Gallery, 2008 (cat)
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 (cat)
Set Fra Sommerfugle Vingen, Thomas Wolsing, Denmark, 2007 (cat)
Julie Cockburn, Campden Gallery, 2006 (cat)
Plan B, jaggedart with foreword by Pryle Berhman, 2006 (cat)
The Furniture Shop, Pavia, Elisa del Prete, 2006 (cat)




Collections

Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
Art In Embassies, USA
British Land, London, UK
Caldic Collection, Netherlands
Goss-Michael Foundation, USA
John Jones, London
Miniature Museum of Modern ARt, Amsterdam
Pier 24, San Francisco, USA
The Arts Club, Dover Street, London, UK
The Ivy, London, UK
The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Yale Center For British Art, USA

Private collections worldwide


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